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The splenic flexure lies in the upper left quadrant between the transverse and descending colon.
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What is the medical term meaning bending of the intestine in the area of the spleen?
The term for where the intestines bend in the upper left quadrant under the spleen is the splenic flexure.
What are the 4 divisions of the colon?
There are actually more than 6. I believe they would be the cecum, ascending colon, hepatic flexure, transverse colon, colic (or splenic) flexure, descending colon, and sigmoid colon.
What is splenic embolization?
Splenic embolization. involves plugging or blocking the splenic artery to shrink the size of the spleen. The substances that are injected during this procedure include polyvinyl alcohol foam, polystyrene, and silicone.
What is sigmoid flexure?
Piece of connective tissue that extends the penis in ruminants.
What is the structure between the ascending and transverse colon?
The right colic (hepatic) flexure.
Which organ has curves called hepatic flexure and splenic flexure?
Lage Intestine
What is a spleen fixture?
I think you must be asking about Splenic Flexure. The splenic (or left colic) flexure is a sharp bend between the transverse and the descending colon in the left upper quadrant of humans.
What part of large intestine is between the hepatic flexure and the splenic flexure?
The Transverse colon is between both flexures
What is the splenic flexture?
The bend in the colon between the transverse and descending parts. The other flexure (between ascending and transverse) is the hepatic flexure.
What is the bend in the colon in left side of the abdomen?
The colon starts from the right and lower side of the abdomen. It goes up ward. Then almost horizontally towards left side of upper abdomen. Then it goes downwards. The bend here is called as left colic flexure. It is also called as splenic flexure.
What is 12 cm proximal to the splenic flexure?
It would be near the descending colon in the left upper quadrant of humans.
The segment that is located between the hepatic and splenic flexure is called the?
I suppose you are talking about the intestinal segment so it is called the Transverse Colon
What is the medical term meaning bending of the intestine in the area of the spleen?
The term for where the intestines bend in the upper left quadrant under the spleen is the splenic flexure.
Which organs lie in the left upper quadrent?
The left upper quadrant of the abdomen contains the pancreas, the spleen, the left kidney, the left adrenal gland, the left-most aspect of the liver, and the splenic flexure of the colon along with the left-most transverse colon and the superior aspect of the descending colon.
What does splenic mean?
Splenic means related to the spleen.
What are the lengths of the different parts of the colon?
The average colon is about 1.5 m long. Lengths of the various parts are: * Anal canal: 5 cm * Rectum: 12 cm * Sigmoid colon: 40 cm * Descending colon: 15 cm * Transverse colon: 45 cm * Ascending colon: 25 cm The splenic flexure is thus at around 72 cm from the anal verge, and the hepatic flexure at around 117 cm.
Where is the hepatic flexure located?
The hepatic flexure lies in the upper right quadrant of the abdomen.
